Distant calls can sound strange

This evening from about 17:00 to 21:00 there were some great calls heard by humans and auto-recorded at Orcasound (and to a much more limited extent at Lime Kiln). Early on (listen to the 17:00-19:00 hour recordings), the calls were faint but the background noise level was low (~97 dB re 1 microPa). The result was a series of calls that sounded pretty strange, especially with the echoes that were audible under such quiet conditions.

These S4 calls are reminiscent of low-frequency calls from a baleen whale, like a humpback, complete with echoes:
PWRAveDb_96_01_23_2011_17_51_08.mp3

And these S10 calls (and whistles?) make for a very unusual recording:
PWRAveDb_97_01_23_2011_19_06_25.mp3

The complete suite of 79 detections (only 1 from Lime Kiln) are listed below:


2011-01-23 17:48:43
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2011-01-23 17:50:04
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2011-01-23 17:51:08
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2011-01-23 17:55:20

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2011-01-23 18:04:12
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2011-01-23 18:04:36
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2011-01-23 18:12:33
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2011-01-23 18:12:48
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2011-01-23 18:15:12
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2011-01-23 18:53:49
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2011-01-23 19:02:23

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2011-01-23 19:04:13
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2011-01-23 19:06:25
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2011-01-23 19:08:24
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2011-01-23 19:08:48
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2011-01-23 19:11:06
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2011-01-23 19:25:40
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2011-01-23 19:36:04

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2011-01-23 19:40:08
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2011-01-23 19:43:38
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2011-01-23 19:44:17
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2011-01-23 19:45:32
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2011-01-23 19:46:07
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2011-01-23 19:49:21
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2011-01-23 19:55:51

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2011-01-23 19:57:28
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2011-01-23 19:57:43
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2011-01-23 19:57:58
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2011-01-23 19:58:24
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2011-01-23 19:59:12
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2011-01-23 20:00:07
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2011-01-23 20:01:38

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2011-01-23 20:03:20
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2011-01-23 20:03:49
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2011-01-23 20:04:40
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2011-01-23 20:04:55
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2011-01-23 20:05:32
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2011-01-23 20:05:51
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2011-01-23 20:06:06

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2011-01-23 20:07:42
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2011-01-23 20:07:57
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2011-01-23 20:08:14
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2011-01-23 20:09:30
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2011-01-23 20:13:26
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2011-01-23 20:15:03
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2011-01-23 20:15:33

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2011-01-23 20:15:48
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2011-01-23 20:17:16
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2011-01-23 20:17:31
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2011-01-23 20:23:47
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2011-01-23 20:24:48
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2011-01-23 20:25:03
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2011-01-23 20:27:07

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2011-01-23 20:30:16
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2011-01-23 20:31:01
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2011-01-23 20:32:25
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2011-01-23 20:32:48
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2011-01-23 20:33:31
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2011-01-23 20:34:10
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2011-01-23 20:35:48

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2011-01-23 20:36:03
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2011-01-23 20:36:18
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2011-01-23 20:36:45
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2011-01-23 20:37:32
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2011-01-23 20:38:04
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2011-01-23 20:38:30
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2011-01-23 20:38:45

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2011-01-23 20:39:00
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2011-01-23 20:39:15
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2011-01-23 20:39:30
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2011-01-23 20:39:48
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2011-01-23 20:40:51
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2011-01-23 20:41:06
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2011-01-23 20:41:21

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2011-01-23 20:45:15
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2011-01-23 20:45:30
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2011-01-23 20:47:14
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2011-01-23 20:47:29
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2011-01-23 20:51:56
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